Pete Cashmore has an article titled – Here Come the Edge Aggregators – that describes four new services that are aggregating RSS feeds in new ways. Services like Edgio and iNod scan RSS feeds looking for posts that are tagged with certian tags. In the case of Edgio the tag being aggregated is “listing” with the result of the aggregation being classified ads! We’re getting very close indeed to automating content creation so that pre-formatted articles can be created by making use of ongoing insertions of information by way of RSS. It’s incredibly efficient on one level, although one fears that ‘aggregation’ might encourage mindless copying at the expense of creating original material.
Edge Aggregators
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